{"id":98778,"date":"2025-10-02T09:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98778\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:40:07","slug":"seth-meyers-roasts-trump-for-being-totally-obsessed-with-this-weird-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98778\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Meyers Roasts Trump For Being Totally ‘Obsessed’ With This Weird Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meyers aired a brutal<\/a> supercut of Trump who \u2014 prior to his first term \u2014 said that a shutdown would be a \u201ctremendously negative mark\u201d on former President Barack Obama<\/a> and that the \u201cpressure\u201d is on anyone in the Oval Office to be a \u201cleader\u201d and work out a deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Congress, you have to get everybody in a room and you have to get them to agree. … You have to get people, grab \u2019em, hug \u2019em, kiss \u2019em and get the deal done,\u201d said Trump at a GOP presidential debate<\/a> in February 2016.<\/p>\n

Meyers swiftly poked fun at the president\u2019s negotiation strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Trump started grabbing, hugging and kissing [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer<\/a> and [House Minority Leader] Hakeem Jeffries<\/a>, I think they\u2019d agree to anything just to get the hell out of there,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n

Meyers declared that Trump is \u201cobsessed\u201d with hugging whenever he talks about negotiations before tossing to a clip of the president discussing the U.S.-brokered peace deal<\/a> between Armenia and Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were hugging each other and holding hands, it was an amazing thing,\u201d said Trump of his Oval Office meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.<\/p>\n

Meyers joked, \u201cI\u2019m assuming every time Don Jr.<\/a> and Eric hear him talk like this they say, \u2018Where the fuck was my hug?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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